Meteorite?

[DimonZ]

It is a meteorit?

 

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[Terry Soloman]

Nope, not even close.

Welcome to the forum!

 

[DimonZ]

Thank you for your opinion. The subject of magnetization.

 

[galenrog]

Looks like common basalt. Magnet sticking means little by itself. Much of the rock in my driveway will stick to magnets.

If you have an interest in meteorites, get a few guidebooks. Mine are always helpful.

Time for more coffee.

 

[DimonZ]

may be. thanks!

 

[A2coins]

Welcome to tnet it's good to ask and learn

 

[Kray Gelder]

If you're wondering, your rock's strange shape, and surface texture is caused by molten rock oozing out of a crack, underwater, and crusting over immediately. It's called pillow lava.

 

[DimonZ]

Understandably. thanks

 

[DimonZ]

maybe there is something valuable inside?)

 

[DimonZ]

this stone used to belong to a military pilot. And for some reason he kept it ...

 

[DimonZ]

if it was a meteorite and I sawed it into two parts, would it have greatly lost value?

 

[DimonZ]

removed the top layer. Graphite - color mate surface

 

[SergeyN]

It seems to me that all cosmic stones should have radiation

 

[DimonZ]

I measured. radiation background is normal

 

[How Lucky]

You may have some old furnace lining or slag. If you keep looking you will probably find more. Good sign when looking for old building foundations or dumps.

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

if it was a meteorite and I sawed it into two parts, would it have greatly lost value?View attachment 1779299View attachment 1779300

If it sawed with a regular blade (not a diamond blade), it's definitely not a meteorite.

 

[Red-Coat]

There's no real need to go sawing it in half. Enough of the interior is already visible to confirm it's NOT a meteorite. I can see vesicles and those don't occur in meteorites, except extremely rarely within a glassy crust on the exterior. I would think it's probably vesicular basalt.

Re some of the other comments:

Meteorites are not always so hard that you need a diamond saw to cut them. That would be true for nickel-iron meteorites and those with a high native metal content, but this obviously couldn't fall into those categories. Stone meteorites (low metal chondrites and achondrites) can often be cut very easily. I have some you could cut with a penknife.

Meteorites are not radioactive. There have only been two examples that showed any significant radioactivity and both of those were no more radioactive than the background level you might find if you lived near a large outcrop of granite.